Managing ethical uncertainty

Implicit Normativity and the Sociology of Ethics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2249643
AutoresAlan Cribb (0000-0002-7908-5195, Centre for Public Policy Research King's College London London UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume42
FascículoS1
Páginas21-34
Data de publicação2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13010
PMID31749190
OpenAlexW2982972765
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas35

This article illustrates and discusses the idea of 'implicit normativity', and specifically its relevance to the management of ethical uncertainty. In particular I consider (i) the role implicit normativity plays in masking and containing potential ethical uncertainty and (ii) the contrast and boundary between implicit normativity and 'overt ethics' where ethical contestation - as well as particular processes and agents - are highlighted as salient. Using examples I show how the idea of implicit normativity can be applied not only to specific practices but also to whole fields of practice. The notion of 'moral settlements' - along with the explanatory role of the threat of 'chaos' - is introduced and elucidated to develop these points. I argue that attention to the management of ethical uncertainty shows the critically important contribution that an ambitious sociology of ethics can make to clinical ethics, including by helping to formulate and drive home questions about the 'ethics of ethics'. The account presented here has resonances with work that seeks to use sociological lenses to move beyond conventional bioethics, including Petersen's (2013) call for a 'normative sociology

Applied ethics · Bioethics · Epistemology · Information ethics · Meta-ethics · Normative · Normative ethics · Political science · Relevance (law · Salient · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment